The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1898. DECEMBER 1, 1898 THURSDAY " JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprieton OOt il ons b ooty il TR Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE S6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is | served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year; per montb | 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL............. One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.......... ves+..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE......... Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON ®. €.) OFFICE. verean.--Rigge House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. | CHICAGO OFFICE. ...Marquette Bullding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll | 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open uotH 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25I18 Misslon strget, open until 9 c'clock. 106 Eleventhy street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ams | Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'cleck. | AMUSEMENTS e 1 ret Service.” ! ayest Manhattan.' | The Politiclan.’ - < | Tivoli—"‘Cyrano de Bergera | Commodo: *“The Crust of Soclety.” | Baths—i hanic’s Pavilion—Charity wimming. Bazear. M Palace Hotel Maple Room—Doll Show this afternoon and evening. ! Oakland Race Track—Races to-day. | thal—Coming n_December | AUCTION SALES, | s—This day, December 1, at 11 o'clock, livery | rrison stree g—Friday evening, December 2, Thorough- 1 Howard street. | L. Vincent—Friday, December 3, at 11 o'clock, furniture, | 7 Waller street. ¢ & Co.—Tuesday evening, December 6, at 7:30 red Yeariings, at corner Market street and | | | must be supported by labor. "THE .PHILIPPINE PURCHASE. T is announced, with an appearance of fact, that l our Peace Commissioners at Paris have arranged with Spain for the purchase of her sovereignty in the Philippines for the sum of $20,000,000, leaving the island debt in an unadjusted condition. This treaty of purchase may be separate from the treaty which settles our controversy with Spain, or it may be a past thereof. On this point there is no informa- tion. When the history of the West and East Indian tropical islands is considered, it is plain that Spain has driven a very good bargain. We have many florid statements of the fertility of the tropical islands. | Their beauty has been written and sung, and they are imbedded in literature from Hakluyt's Voyages tc Joaquin Miller's poems. But when we are taking twenty millions from American taxpayers to buy land seven thousand miles away, as a practical people it becomes us to look beyond the poetry of the purchase and see what it will prospectively add to our basket and our store. b The commercial value of the West and East In- dian tropics lies in certain products of their soil, in sugar, hemp, tobacco and rice. An examination of the conditions under which these are produced may dispel some illusions which form the iridescent back- ground of this new purchase. Labor in the tropics has never had features in com- | mon with labor in the temperate zone. Tropical pro- duction of the articles of commerce has been always forced. Labor under a vertical sun is not necessary to the support of life. That support is furnished spontaneously by nature. In the temperate zone life The world’s highest civilization' is in that zone, because men have to live by overcoming the resistance of nature. In the tropics nature presents no resistance, but lavishes the sus- | tenance of man with a prodigal hand. Therefore tropical civilization has always been low. The European countries which have held tropical possessions have ' realized profit on them only by forcing labor to production. When France owned Hayti the exports were $50,000,006 a year, the result of labor driven by lash and spur. After Toussaint L’'Ouverture, Hayti became independent, France was expelled, labor ceased because the lash and spur were withdrawn, and the exports fell to $1,500,000, and consist principally of the spontaneous products of the soil. Jamaica was the only greatly fertile West Indian possession of Great Britain. When production was forced by the lash on the back of slave labor it was an important possession, but now its exports have fallen to $7,582,630 annually, although by reason of the altitude of its mountains it has the best climate found in any of the American tropics. The same story runs round the world. When ferced labor ceases, tropical production lapses and cummerce decays. The great trouble with Spain was that she held on to slave labor in the tropics long after England and France gave it up, and after Canovas emancipated her slaves force exerted by a military government continued to compel labor to its task, until in Cuba and the Philippines it revolted. Every day comes the story that the liberated Cu- bans refuse to work. Spanish compulsion is upon them no more. Three-quarters of them are negroes. Nature produces all they want, and they will lapse into exactly the same condition as their congeners, jthe descendants of the black slaves in Hayti, San | Domingo and Jamaica. They live where white men | cannot, where rio other labor can exist, and if there | | THE CONTUMACIOUS EXPRESS \ COMPANIES. : RUMOR comes over the wires from St. Louis | fl to the effect that the merchants of the Western States’are preparing a petition asking Congress to place the express companies of the country in the hands of the Interstate Commerce Commission. It is to be hoped that this is true. Moreover, it is to be hoped that when Congress receives the petition it will instantly pass an act ordering the commission to take the express companies in hand. If there ever was a! class of corporations which needed a strong dose of | retributive ice it is the express companies. ! These corporations have thus far resisted all :lt-! tempts on the part of people and Government to make them pay their war taxes. They have, in viola- | tion of the decisions of the courts and the rulings of | Attorney Generals, Internal Revenue agents and others, flagrantly refused to comply with the statute. Not only have they displayed a selfish and unpatriotic spirit, entirely at variance with the course of other | corporations during the late war, but they have been | arrogant and insolent as well. They have forced the payment of their war taxes upon the people with a | reckless disregard of the decencies which demands | punishment of some kind. | Under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce | Commission these corporations could be made to re- spect the Government and meet some of their public | obligations. The commission would have power to regulate their rates, prevent their discriminations and | compel them to obey the laws. Heretofore they have had things mostly their own way. This may account | in part for their defiant attitude upon the war tax question. A specimen of the way in ‘which they do | business is found in the course of Wells, Fargo &‘; Co., the local express corporation guilty of violating | the war revenue law. This company stamps the packages of its large customers and pays for the newspaper bundles. It cinches only the helpless por- tion of the public. We sincerely hope the merchants of the Western States will persist in forcing this matter upon the at- tention of Congress. If sufficient pressure is brought to bear doubtless- that body will enact the necessary laws to put the express companies upon the rack. Certainly these corporations should not be permitted | forever to set the whole people of the United States at defiance. We, in common ‘with most sane ‘in- dividuals, are disposed to regard with toleration or- dinary disputes as to' the meaning of laws. But the war revenue law is not ambiguous. Not only does it require the express companies to pay for the stamps used in their business, but all the Judges and officials, except one, who have so far considered the subject have so decided. Under the circumstances of the case almost any measure of punishment would not be considered too severe by the public. THE LATE CORBETT AND SHARKEY. HAT there should be occasion for devoting T pace to such creatures as Corbett and Sharkey is a matter for regret. The pair seem to forget that as attractions they are dead. They persist in projecting their unpleasant remains across the line of vision. They even talk of “fighting” again, and the suggestion is made that they “fight” here. Not if decent citizens can help it. San Francisco has had enough of them and their kind. The pugilists are frouds and fakers. They have been fully exposed. Yet the public is forgetful, and unless attention is directed continually to the record of these fellows, sooner or later they may again enter the ring, attract a crowd and annex a purse. The proposal has been made that they ‘“‘fight” for the benefit of charity. The scheme is too apparent. Probably in the judgment of the pugs there could be no more fitting object upon which to shower the alms than the pugs themselves. Charity does not yet have to rely upon a couple oi rowdies for the means of doing good, and when it shall have been reduced 10 such extremity it will be in a bad way. These fel- lows would as soon do their robbing in the nam- of charity as in any other, since, for the time at least, their own names have lost power to draw." Just now suckers are sated. There is a glut in the gold brick market. 2 There is only one proper fashion of treating the professional fighter. This is to regard him as an enemy of society, a corrupter of morals, a nuisance and a swindler. He should be preyented from follow- ing his calling, and, as he will not work, in the end the law against vagrancy would fittingly terminate his public career. Crm———————— Peru reports a revolution just out of sight, but whether going or coming advices fail to state. - _ is no power to drive them to their tasks, these will remain undone. The same conditions, in a more marked degree, prevail in the Philippines. Spain, by a combination of military and theocratic government, laid exactions upon the people that could be met only by forced labor. That labor produced a total inward and out- ward commerce of only $30,000,000 a year at the highest tide of Spanish oppression of the people by compelling them to work. What are we going to do in the Philippines? A vast majority of these ten mil- lions of people refuse to go again into colonial con- ditions. To them those conditions mean forced labor, and they don’t want to work because they don’t have to in order to supply all their wants. Therefore it is plain that we must make our title good by con- quest. Spain may give us a quitclaim; she cannot give a warranty. After we conquer the islands we cannot put labor again under the lash. White labor there is impossible. We will have all the difficulties and cost of a military government, and get a gold brick in return. Let this be remembered: No nation has ever se- cured profit out of a tropical colony except by a sys- tem of servile labor, or compulsory labor. We can- not change natural conditions, and therefore cannot get out of the Philippines a Spanish profit without using Spanish methods. ——— —— Without desiring in any measure to influence the court, it may be remarked that the man who engages in forgery and then confesses that his accomplices are guilty does not take on the aspect of a blossom of innocence himself. Europe is reported to be opposed to American ex- pansion. So are many Americans; but the opposition cf Europe will tend to weaken them. They may not desire the Philippines, but they want Europe to attend to its business. A young man of San Diego has just died from the effect of a 100-foot dive. The utility of the 100-foot dive, the plunge from a balloon and the thrusting of the head in a lion’s mouth have never been fully grasped. fl have given their views on the programme of legislative work to be undertaken this winter. There has been, of course, more or less divergence in their statements, but in one notable respect they have been alike. None among them has given any prominence to the subject of protection to American shipping. That issue seems to have escaped the at- tention of all who have up to this time spoken of the prospects of the session, f It is not easy to understand why this should be so. The importance of the subject is well understood, for commercial expansion is now the prevailing desire of the people and the most pressing of our industrial needs. It occupies a large part of political discussion among the people and the press, and is recognized as a material factor in every problem that conironts us, whether it be one of domestic or of foreign politics. There can be no comprehensive commercial expan- A SIN OF OMISSION. CONSIDERABLE number of Congressmen | sion without an adequate merchant marine, nor -in competition with the subsidized marine of other powers can American ships maintain themselves on the sea without some form of aid from the Govern- ment. To grant that aid in a liberal measure would be economy in the fullest and truest sense of the term, for at present we are paying to foreign ship-owners something like $150,000,000 a year to carry our com- merce for us. - o Several Congressmen is discuseing the work of the session have declared that earnest efforts will be made to provide this winter for the construction of the Nicaragua canal. That the people will heartily support any well directed plan for that enterprise is beyond question, and yet under present conditions we would be constructing the waterway for the benefit of European ship-owners rather than our own. Long before the canal is completed we should have an ex- panding merchant marine to make use of it. By the St. Louis platform the Republican party is emphatically pledged to foster and promote our shipping industries. Such a policy is an essential part of the great principle of protection of which the party is the recognized champion. So long as our merchant marine is left exposed to the ruinous com- petition of the subsidized vessels of Europe, with their cheaper labor in the shipyards and cheaper wages for sailors, so long will the protective legislation of the country be incomplete and inadequate. NEEDED PRISON . REFORMS. CCORDING to the report of the State Board fl of Prison Directors the management and dis- cipline of the prisons at Folsom and San Quentin compare favorably with any similar institu- tion in the Union, and yet there is no classification of prisoners which permits the separation of the totally depraved from those who are young in vice, nor any effective means of preventing the prisoners from ob- taining opium. On that showing, prison reform is needed every- where in the Union. Certainly it is needed here. The Directors report that a means of separating the two classes of prisoners is desirable, but add: “To carry out our views in this direction would involve the construction of new cell buildings, the introduc- tion of new industries, and a large expenditure of money. Probably it is a larger question from a finan- rcial standpoint than the people are prepared to. re- gard favorably in their present mood.” That the people are avers: to any increase in the cost of maintaining prisons is beyond question, but possibly the desired reform might be accomplished without the heavy expense suggested. There are gen- crally more ways than one of effecting reforms, and an investigation of the subject by experts might re- sult in the discovery of some means by which the separation of the juvenile and first offenders from habitual criminals could be achieved at a cost the people would willingly pay. The smuggling of opium into the prisonsis oneof the evils that to outsiders seems to imply a woeful lack of discipline somewhere. To prevent the use of opium in a large city may be impossible, but it ought to be comparatively easy to prevent it in a penitentiary. The Directors recommend the enactment of a law making the introduction of opium into the prisons a penal offense, and the recommendation should be adopted. It is but a badly managed commonwealth that cannot make its laws obeyed even in its prisons. The most gratifying feature of the report is the showing made of the good effects of the parole law. The system was adopted with much hesitation, and there was a widespread fear that it would result badly. The Directors report that they have exercised the authority conferred upon them by the act with the utmost caution, but with encouraging results. They announce that fully 8 per cent of the paroled industrious prisoners are leading and honorable lives. A FEDERAL MARRIAGE LAW. /\/\R. ROBERTS of Utah, who has just been elected to Congress as a representative of Democracy, free silver, free trade and four wives, is likely to be the cause of an agitation which will go far beyond his personal fortunes and possibly result in a far-reaching reform in our marriage laws. As has been pointed out by The Call, it will be easy for Congress to refuse a seat to Roberts on the ground of his polygamous marriages, but a full set- tlement of the whole question at issue can hardly be effected without the adoption of a cnnstitutional amendment forbidding polygamy and the enactment of proper legislation to enforce it. This- view of the issue has been taken by a large number of authorities, and consequently a move- ment of considerable strength has been already started to support the proposed amendment. It is certain that a memorial will be laid before Congress urging that steps be taken to submit the question to the State Legislatures, and that the memorial will have able advocates in both houses. The movement does not flow solely from the op- position to polygamy, though of course all of its ad- vocates would be glad of a means of putting an end to that evil. Much of the strength of the agitation is due to the fact that the adoption of the amend- ment would authorize the enactment of a Federal marriage law, and thereby enable Congress to put an end to the confusion which now exists by reason of the diversities of State laws on the subject. It has long been recognized that a nation with forty-five different divorce codes is more of a para- dise for lawyers than a well organized society. The evils resulting from the conflict of State laws on the subject have been well known and frequently dis- cussed. The advocates of reform in this direction will be prompt to take advantage of the chance afforded by the Roberts case to get an amendment to the constitution which will enable them to carry out their plan of establishing a uniform. marriage and divorce law throughout the Union. The issue, it will be seen, is likely to become one which will affect all the States, and not Utah only. This fact, while adding to the strength of the advo- cates of the amendment, will also increase the oppo- sition to it, and the result is likely to be one of the most interesting contests of a non-partisan nature that the country has known for a long time. A curious feature of the murder of a Kaésan by a son who got in a hurry to realize on the life insur- ance is that according to the law as lately interpreted in a California court the son can obtain the money and use it in his defense. Belew, convicted of murder and hanged for it, had inherited the property of his victims, and his heirs cannot be disturbed in pos- session of it. French statesmen declare that the Americans lack in diplomatic skill and would keep Europe in trouble all the time if permitted a hold in the Far East. This, of course, bars America. Europe has troubles enough. ———i People who have to pass the corner of Market and Powell streets will put their feet down with a little more confident tread when the leaning and trembling walls have been cleared away. - A It ‘would be well to discover the thieves who hold positions at the City Hall before the situation be- comes complicated through their absence. Blanco-has- sailed for Spain, but this is no reason the picture of somebody else should have been printed in an evening paper and labeled as his:- A New York paper threatens to tell the truth about the war, but there is no particular likelihood that it will change its habits. PETER McGLADE MADE MONEY ON BOGUS ORDERS Has Disappeared and Left No| Trace, Except $1100 at His Broker’s. A fat salary at the City Hall and the ponies at Ingleside, with the cock- tail route as the road between, have wrought the undoing of another “trusted deputy.” Peter McGlade, chief bookkeeper for the Street Department, has been missing from his desk since Friday afternoon and the only trace of him that he has left behind is a short- age of $1164 in his accounts with Bier & Regensburger, the warrant brokers. Although McGlade has been operating since May 1, with prospect of discovery staring him in the face on the first of every month, his crookedness was not discovered until Monday morning, when a letter from his brokers notifled Su- perintendent Ambrose that they had a half-dozen labor tabs dating back to the 1st of May for which they had never recelved warrants. A hasty glance at the books disclosed the fact that all of the names in which the tabs ‘were made out were fictitious, and that McGlade had signed each order. Ex- pert Derham was at once put to work and yesterday he had figured that the missing deputy had realized $1154 up to November 1. McGlade’s method was as simple as it was clumsy. Finding himself in need of money after a night's bout or an off day at the track he would issue a tab to J. Radumsky or J. Kelley, or to some other fictitious person, stating that the bearer had performed thirty days’ labor for the Street Department at $4 per day, for which a warrant would issue on the 1st of the month following. This tab would be hypothecated at the brokers for a matter of 2 per cent dis- count and McGlade would pocket the returns. Ordinarily he would have been discovered at the end of his first month, for it is the custom of the brokers to demand the warrants for these tabs as soon as they fall due. Bler & Regensburger, however, al- lowed the accounts to run along until the first of the present week, when the crash came too late to find McGlade at home. So far as investigation has progressed a Shortage of the brokers are the only losers. Mc- | Glade's account with his office is ap- | Iparently perfectly straight, although | | Superintendent Ambrose is looking for | something in the way of forged orders | on the treasury. The brokers have not yet put the matter in the hands of the | police, but a thorough search is being | quietly made for the missing deputy by those who are most interested. Peter McGlade has been for years a popular figure in local politics and | sportdom. Four years ago he was de- | feated by Lew Brown for the office of Secretary of State, and when Governor Budd went into office he was made chief deputy of the Registrar’s office. He remained there for two years, when he resigned to take the position of which he has just deprived himself in the Street Department. | His shortage has not yet been offi- | cially brought to the notice of the po- | | lice, but a thorough search is being made for him. The police say that the last seen of him was on Friday after- noon, when he dropped in to a McAl- lister street saloon and sald he was on his way to the Hammam baths. A number of his intimates, however, claim to have talked with him on Mar- ket street on Sunday afternoon, that he has not fled the city, and that he will be on hand when needed. Superintendent Ambrose is much dis- turbed over the transgressions of his deputy. Asked as to McGlade's short- age, he said: “McGlade’s shortage in no way af- fects my office. The loss is the brokers’, so far as we know, but I have started an investigation of the books to find whether or not he has drawn any fraudglent orders on the treasury. I do not know what to make of Mec- Glade's crookedness. He had a good salary, was highly esteemed and could have had almost anything he asked for, and yet here he goes wrong for a beg- garly $1100. I have always known him for an honest and upright man. I have not heard that he gambled or that he drank to excess, and I have liked him; but I must say that if he is the sort of man circumstances make it appear, I have no sympathy for him. I do not know what action the brokers will take against him. I can take none at all unless it is discovered that the city has lost by his transactions.” THE EDITORIAL THAT | Cup,” my lord.” CAUSED A RACE WAR The trouble in Wilmington, N. C., broke out on the day after election. The chief cause alleged was an editorial printed in a paper edited by a mulatto named Alex L. Manley. It reads as follows: A Mrs. Felton, frém Georgla, makes a speech before the agricultural society at Tybee, Ga., in which she advocates lynching as an extreme measure. This woman makes a strong plea for womanhood, and if the alleged crimes of race were half so frequent as ofttimes reported her plea would be worthy of con- sideration. Mrs. Felton. like so many other so-called Christians, loses sight of the basic principle of the religion of Christ in her plea for one class of people as against another. If a missionary spirit is essential for the uplifting of the poor white girls, why is it? The morals of the poor white people are on a par with their colored neighbors of like conditions, and if any one doubts the statement let him visit among them. The whole lump needs to be leavened by those who pro- fess so much religion and showing them that the preservation of virtue is an essential for the life of any people. Mrs. Felton begins well, for she admits that education will better protect girls on the farm from the assaulter. This we admit, and it should not be confined to the white any more than to the colored girls. The editors pour forth volleys of aspersions against all negroes because of the few who may be guilty. If the papers and speakers of the other race would condemn the commission of crime because it is crime, and not try to make it appear that the negroes were the only criminals, they would find their strongest allies in the intelligent negroes them- selves, and together the whites and blacks would root the evil out of both races. ‘We suggest that the whites guard their women more closely, as Mrs. Felton says, thus giving no opportunity for the human fiend, be he white or black. You leave your goods out of doors and then complain because thev are taken away. Poor white men are careless fi the matter of protecting their women, es- pecially on farms. They are careless of their conduct toward them, and our ex- perience among poor white people in the country teaches us that the women of that race are not any more particular in the matter of clandestine meetings with colored men than are the white men with colored women. Meetings of this kind go on for some time, until the woman's infatuation or the man’s boldness brings attention to them. and the man is lynched. Every negro lynched |is called_a “big, burly black brute,” when in fact many of those who haye thus been dealt with had white men for their fathers, and were not only not “black’ and “burly,” but were sufficiently attractive for white, giris of culture and re- finement to fall in love with them, as is well known to dll. £ Mrs. Felton must begin at the fountain-head if she wishes to purify the stream. Teach your men purity. Let virtue be something more than an excuse for them to Intimidate and torture a helpless people. Tell your men that it is no worse for a black man to be intimate with a white woman than for a white man to be intimate with a colored woman. You set yourselves down as a lot of carping hypocrites; in fact, you cry aloud for the virtue of your women while you seek to destro{ Don't think ever that your women will remain pure whil You sow the seed—the harvest will come in due time. Two days later, Mrs. W. H. Felton, wife of ex-Congressman Felton of Georgla, upon whose speech at Tybee Island Manley’s editorial commented, gave the following signed statement to the press: ours. {sgrace in a free country when violence is a tof (a;gd‘:fcrenuon are trembling and afraid to be left alone in their homes. With due respect to Southern politics I say that when into your embraces on election day toicontrol his . vateuand susect 20, anding and make him v a brother, fuddle his understand g ot the polls and make him familiar with Qirty trcns in politics, so long will lynchings prevail, because the cause will grow and in- election when there is not enough religion in the pulpit to e against this sin, nor justice in the courthouse to promptly nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm part of when_you honey-snuggle crease with ever; organize a Crus: punish the crime, about innocence and virtue. It it requires lynching to protect woman's dearest possession from ravening, drunken human beasts, then I say Iynch necessary. Tybee address was made the crime and lynchings have decrs Sinee 01y, T The condition in North Carolina s the manifest revsls of corruption in politics and undue familiarity with North It is the unwritten law in Georgia that a black flend who destroys a the highway, and is identified with proof must die without clergy, Judge or jury. I know that tens of thousands of honorable colored men and women in Georgia will approve the verdict. The black race will be destroyed by the whites In self-defense unless law 50 per cent in Georgia. the polls. white woman in her home or on tive, and order prevail in regard to the crime the blame where it should be in my H:.“«ia prosperity of the South and destroy the colored race at last. ‘When the negro Manley attributed the crime of rape to Intimacy between nafro men and white women of the South the slanderer should be made to fear a [yncher’'s rope rather than occupy a the morality of ours. e you are debaucning CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Nov, 15. ublic reproach and the best his you take the negro vote T and use liquor to a thousand negroes a week, if it is Carolina negroes at 0si- of rape and the lynchin; th s, bee address, Such politics wil politics will place in New York newspapers. MRS. W. H. EPELTON. WITH ACTORS | ° AND MUSICIANS . “Secret Service” continues to crowd the California at every performance. It is a remarkable play, and Mr. Gillette and the company give it an ideal inter- pretation. It is a matter of general re- gret among theater-goers that the en- gagement closes with the Saturday night performance. For the Sunday night opening the California offers Charles E. Blaney's extravaganza, “A Boy ‘Wanted.” % “Cyrano de Bergerac” at the Tivoll is quite a success. Edwin Stevens handles the title “with thorough understand- ing and the company gives good support. The scenery is extremely creditable. “Cyrano de Bergerac” at the Comedy is no more. The Henderson Company cried quits after last night's perform- ance and will devote the balance of the week to “The Crust of. Society.” *Ole Oleson” opens Monday night. “Gayest Manhattan™ will continue its irresponsible merriment at the Columbia the rest of this and all of next week. et . ‘At the Alcazar “The Politiclan,” a par- | ticularly pat satire on American poli- tics, is ‘a strong attraction. The bill for next week is Gillette’s “The Private Sec- retary,’ Trecefled by | Louise Velller's clever little curtain-raiser, ‘“Keeping Up Appearances.” This afternoon’s symphony concert in the Orpheum promises to attract a large audience. Schumann's first symphony— :‘rl\ed BJ“tllin:Tund r’{schukowsky’s “Romeo et” overture are Scheel's selections. SR b’l;::o Orpha:m is doing the usual big usiness and offering the usual first- rate vaudeville show. The new hits in this week’s bfl? S v Naval melodrama is taking well at Morosco’s, where an_excitin; called “The' Commodore,” 18 bn fo oo ———— Petitions in Bankruptey. Edwin Ruthven Clute of San Fran- cisco filed a petition in bankruptey yester- day in the United States District Court. His liabilities' are $8915 88, and he has no %?‘l’i:!. &:;tew;v:u thedhues(tlmn‘;i of Mrs. . murdes Verenesneckockhoft. 7 s} e California Campbell of Oakland also She is - but the peti- She owes $768 99 and has nothing for her creditors. o l AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Hervey Lindley of Klamath is at the Palace. ‘W. Jens and wife of St. Louis are regis- tered at the Palace. Lucas F. Smith of Santa Cruz is reg- istered at the Grand. A. W. Simpson, a Stockton is staying at the Occidental. Captain W. H. McMinn, a capitalist of Mission San Jose, is at the Lick. Drury Melone, a banker, who resides in Oak Knoll, is a guest the the Palace. C. R. Spilvalo and wife of Belmont have taken apartments at the California. Mrs, F. Horton and Miss Elsie Horton of Livermore are guests at the Grand H. B: Berris, a business man of Red- ding, is at thé Russ for a brief stay J. H. Gurnsey, = Rcd business man, is registered at the Russ with hig wife. W. R. Laugenour of Woodland is a guest at the Lick and is accompanied by his wife and baby. James McCudden and daughter came merchant, | down from Vallejo yesterday and are reg- istered at the Occidental. Attorney Frank Willard Kimball of San Luis Obispo arrived in the city yesterday and will remain for a few days transact- | ing legal business. 0. B. Nevin, a prominent rancher and cattle dealer of Montana, accompanied by his wife, is in the city visiting his brother, W. Nevin of %4 Powell street, whom he has not seen in 33 years. James Babcock, who has been connect- ed with the Hotel Bartholdi of New York for a number of years, has assumed charge of the new cafe and restaurant in the remodeled Lick House. The appoint- ments are beautiful and complete in every detail. P — CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK Nov. 30.—J. A. Folger of San Francisco is at the Holland. E. 8. Pillsbury of San Francisco is at the Man- hattan. George H. Bill of San Francisco is at the Cosmopolitan. — e — CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—J. N. Woods of Stockton is at Willard’s. W. A. Miller of San Francisco is at the Arlington. —_—e——————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MINNESOTA—J. W. D., City. At the election held November 8, 1808, in Minne- sota it was Linn who was elected Gover- nor. VESPUCCI-E. C., City. The published accounts of the explorations of Amerigo Vespucci_fail to note that he ever landed on the Pacific Coast side oM America, north or south A POEM WANTED—A correspondent of this department is anxious to find a poem about a horse race the first line of which is, “You've never seen ‘Winning Can any of the readers of Answers to Correspondents inform him where it can be found? POSTAGE TO MANILA—S. M. H., City. The postage to Manila, if the letter is sent to a private individual, is 5 cents per half ounce; if sent to a United States soldfer in the army there, or to a sailor in the Unit- ed States navy stationed there, the rate is 2 cents per ounce or fraction thereof. For soldiers and sailors domestic postage is chargéd on all mailable matter. For oth- ers, postal cards are 2 cents, newspapers and other printed matter for each two ounces, 2 cents. THE BALDWIN-S., Clty, and 8. H., Merced, Cal. The Baldwin Hotel had a frontage of 25 feet on Eddy street, 184 on Market, 275 on Powell and 18 feet on The main dome at Powell and Eddy streets was 168 feet above the avement. The building was six stories n height and contained 485 ToSmEs It was opened in February, 18T. The basement was of “rick and iron; the upper walls to the line of the ma sard roof were of brick. The only brick division wall was the one that formed the western wall of the Baldwin Theater, the interior was altogether of wood, an in the language of builders, ‘It was a frame structure inside of a brick shell.” FINGER NAILS—Inquirer, City. The following is a set of rules laid down for determining the character of any one by the finger nails: A white mark on the nail bespeaks misfortune; pale or lead-colored nails indicate melancholy people; broad nalls indicate a gentle, timid and bashful nature; lovers of knowledge and liberal sentiments have round nails; people with narrcw nails are ambitious and quarrel- Ellis_street. some; small nails indicate littleness of mind, obstinacy and conceit; choleric, martial men, delighting in war, have red and spotted nalls; nails growing into the flesh at the points or sides indicate luxur- ious tastes; people with very pale nails are subject to much infirmity of the flesh and persecutions by neighbors and those who claim to be friends. —_——— Cal. glace fru.. 80c per Ib at Townsend's.® (it ST R o e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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